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Planting Gardens in Graves volume III by r.h. sin

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Here with you

“…i’m sorry that your self-esteem was shattered by the mouth of someone who instead of building you up chose to tear down the skyscraper in your soul

i’m sorry they left you behind after promising to stay

i’m sorry that forever has never been long enough

i’m sorry that your eyes have been drowning in the ocean of your own emotions 

i’m sorry that your heart doesn’t know what it means to be held in the hands of someone who truly cares for it…”

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In R.H. Sin’s poem he uses PATHOS to catch the readers attention. He is expressing sorrow to those who have been hurt making a deep connection with them immediately. This is the first poem in the book, when I read it the barrier between author and reader completely dropped. It felt as if a close friend was comforting me. It made me reflect more and understand my own issues in a deeper level because I felt as if he cared and understood the pain that I was going through. While  writing this post I realized that he was a he, I assumed that it was a she, but all this time it he spoke so well and his targeted audience was people who hav been hurt not just women. The purpose of this book was to help people realize, understand and heal from their trauma. 

Bojack Horseman s6ep7 19:40-19:18 mins left

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To give a little background I’m a Mexican daughter and that has always been a big challenge for me, since there have been so many standards set for me to be. While I was told how I should act and be around people, my older brothers would do whatever they please without getting yelled at. My mother and I never had a good relationship because of her unnecessary standards like doing chores, being mature at a young age and doing the men’s chores in my house, even having to serve their plates when we would eat.

So when I was watching this show one of the characters named Todd is talking to Bojack about babies and how we were held as babies by our mothers and how were were seen a perfect thing and how they would love us forever then proceeded to say “whatever happened to that” and “how mothers are weird.” Bojack has been one of my favorite shows because they are not afraid to talk about situations where families aren’t perfect it really hit me that maybe I’m not the only one dealing with these issues if a popular show is addressing it.

I just kinda reflected on my life and how my mother did love me but her way of showing love to me was the same way my grandmother did and how my great grandmother showed her. I was thinking of how my mothers mentality is completely different from what we learned in school and our generation. In a way I learned to appreciate her more even though she makes me do these chores in the future I will be th one benefiting from it. Sometimes we cannot express our emotions and we try to justify them with actions and her actions are genuine. Mothers are weird they want to love us and my mother is showing me the love she was taught.

Photograph

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Marisol Simon

 

Draft 

          The focus of this image is an empty shopping cart. You might think it’s the lamps like even the one right behind the shopping cart may look like the focus since it’s the closest but if that were the case then there wouldn’t be more lamps shining light and for the shopping cart there is only one. The fog on the background also hides anything and everything besides the light of the lamppost. The shopping cart is alone, isolated making a reader think focus on the cart. 

Revision

       The photograph of this image is an empty shopping cart, which is the main focus of this picture. You might think it’s the lamp in the middle because it’s the brightest, if that were the case then there would only be one lamp and many shopping carts. The lamps provide this light that just bring the shopping cart into view. Everything is dark, there is no other source of light but the lamps and the light of the moon. The fog blocks out background details, giving off chilling vibes. Makes you wonder why there is only one shopping cart in the parking lot.

Reflection

At first I was confused because I didn’t know anything about the picture so I didn’t know if we had to describe what it meant to us but then I read the instructions (LOL).  Describing what’s in the picture wasn’t hard but the revision was, I didn’t think I did enough and I chose to give more supporting facts to why the shopping cart is the main focus because I don’t know if we were suppose to bring our own feelings and thoughts to this, and I know we shouldn’t generalize but i don’t know if I was going to maybe go off topic so I just stayed safe and wrote about why the shopping cart is the center of the picture.